Lil Yachty is always looking to push the envelope with his music. Last year, he dropped his psychedelic album, Let’s Start Here, which was met with much critical acclaim. Tonight (February 13), Yachty teased a collaborative album with an equally creative artist and producer.
In a clip shared to his Instagram, Yachty is seen speaking to an unseen person, and revealed that he has worked on a collaborative album with James Blake.
“Granted, I think James has worked with a quite substantial amount of hip-hop artists,” Yachty says in the clip. “But this project, is just like— it’s so left. For both of us.”
Blake had previously hinted a collaboration between him and Yachty almost a year ago, when he shared a picture of the two in the studio via Instagram. Still, Yachty believes the album will take fans by surprise.
“Aside from that one picture that James posted—which, he doesn’t have many followers, actually—I don’t think people know that we know each other exists. So they’re just going to be like ‘What the f*ck? When did they do this?’”
At the end of the clip, a screen reads “Bad Cameo, a full-length album by James Blake & Lil Yachty.” Neither Blake nor Yachty have shared a release date for the album, but according to the caption of Yachty’s Instagram post, fans can expect the project “soon.”
Megan Thee Stallion is dropping a special collection of activewear this week. The activewear line, appropriately called Hot Girl Systems, arrives by way of a partnership with Nike. There will be two drops over the course of the next few days, allowing fans to purchase their Hot Girl Systems fashions via different shops.
How to buy Megan Thee Stallion and Nike’s Hot Girl Systems collection
The first drop for Meg’s Hot Girl Systems collection arrives just in time for her birthday. According to an Instagram post announcing the collection, fans will be able to purchase items from Hot Girl Systems via Meg’s official website beginning Thursday (February 15). This drop coincides with Meg‘s 29th birthday. The second drop will arrive through Nike’s website and retail stores next Tuesday, February 20.
Hot Girl Systems offers a variety of fashions, including a flowing bomber jacket, red biker shorts, black bodysuits, red body suits, a white cropped shirt, a black cropped shirt, and black sports bras. You can find a price guide for each article of clothing here.
It’s long been known that the members of the legendary British comedy troupe Monty Python haven’t always gotten along. Some very much have: Watch Michael Palin’s heartbreaking ode to his close friend Terry Jones, who died from complications of dementia in 2020. But it seems others really don’t see eye to eye. A social media spat recently blew up between Eric Idle and John Cleese, which got so bad that the latter claimed the two have always hated each other’s guts.
Per Deadline, over the weekend Idle took to Twitter/X to complain about the Python brand’s dwindling fortunes. “We own everything we ever made in Python and I never dreamed that at this age the income streams would tail off so disastrously,” Idle wrote. He blamed Holly Gilliam, daughter of fellow Python-er Terry, who took over as manager a while back. “But I guess if you put a Gilliam child in as your manager you should not be so surprised. One Gilliam is bad enough. Two can take out any company.”
We own everything we ever made in Python and I never dreamed that at this age the income streams would tail off so disastrously. But I guess if you put a Gilliam child in as your manager you should not be so surprised. One Gilliam is bad enough. Two can take out any company. https://t.co/J5tQauTH2D
Idle also claimed Python hasn’t made him fabulously wealthy, especially now. “I don’t know why people always assume we’re loaded. Python is a disaster,” he wrote. “Spamalot made money 20 years ago. I have to work for my living. Not easy at this age.”
I don’t know why people always assume we’re loaded. Python is a disaster. Spamalot made money 20 years ago. I have to work for my living. Not easy at this age. https://t.co/nFDbV9BOfC
Later Idle claimed that their former manager, Jim Beach, was fired by Cleese “peremptorily and foolishly, without coming to the Board, when he discovered Jim was to be Executive Producer of Spamalot the Movie.” (Note: The Spamalot movie has never been made, though the show’s back on Broadway.)
He was until John Cleese fired him, peremptorily and foolishly, without coming to the Board, when he discovered Jim was to be Executive Producer of Spamalot the Movie. He was only put there by me to look after the interests of the Pythons – as he did on the Queen movie. https://t.co/cvwstUXSVO
“I have worked with Holly for the last ten years, and I find her very efficient, clear-minded, hard-working, and pleasant to have dealings with,” Cleese wrote. “Michael Palin has asked me to to make it clear that he shares this opinion. Terry Gilliam is also in agreement with this.”
When someone asked Cleese directly if all’s okay between he and Idle, he didn’t mince words: “We always loathed and despised each other, but it’s only recently that the truth has begun to emerge.”
We always loathed and despised each other, but it’s only recently that the truth has begun to emerge https://t.co/QYQNrSogJ6
Uh, is this a gag? Maybe? But seemingly not. On Sunday, Idle mentioned he hadn’t seen Cleese in seven years. When someone said that makes them “sad,” he responded, “Why. It makes me happy.”
When someone suggested that someone make a documentary about the “rise and fall” of the group and how money “really can destroy friendships,” Idle responded bluntly: “F*ck Netflix and f*ck documentaries.” (It’s worth noting that much of Python’s output, including two of their movies and their original show, can currently be streamed on Netflix.)
Idle also claimed the group was never as close as fans may think. “I still love and am proud of what we did as Python. It was a very unique group,” he wrote. “I think of us as an ex Liverpool team. We played together well. Way back in the day. But it was never very supportive of people’s feelings and emotions. Not Brothers. Colleagues.”
I still love and am proud of what we did as Python. It was a very unique group. I think of us as an ex Liverpool team. We played together well. Way back in the day. But it was never very supportive of people’s feelings and emotions. Not Brothers. Colleagues. https://t.co/Cyhr9Da0g1
Idle also told fans not to expect any more Python reunions, as they last did in 2015. “I’m doing no more Python,” he wrote. “I gave already. Ungrateful bastards.”
Always look on the bright side of life, right? Let’s end this kind of sad saga with a joke Idle made amidst this apparent inter-Python war. When asked if the thinked another contentious team, Simon and Garfunkel, would get back together, he wrote, “With whom?”
Hey, it’s something. A good chunk of Python, including Holy Grail, can be streamed on Netflix. Hopefully they’re paying them well, unless that “F*ck Netflix” had deeper connotations.
A groovy new festival is coming to Los Angeles this summer. Fool In Love festival will celebrate its inaugural iteration on August 31 at Hollywood Park Grouds at SoFi Stadium. The festival’s line-up boasts some of the all-time biggest names in R&B, funk, and disco.
Headlining the inaugural Fool In Love festival are Diana Ross, Lionel Richie, Santana, Al Green, Charlie Wilson, Gladys Knight, Smokey Robinson, Durand Jones & The Indications, and Nile Rodgers & Chic. Also on the bill are The Isley Brothers, Chaka Khan, Dionne Warwick, Kool & The Gang, Zapp, and more.
Tickets for Fool In Love are available for purchase beginning Friday (February 16) at 10 AM PT. via the festival’s official website. Fans can purchase general admission tickets beginning at $275. GA+ tickets, which will offer passholders air-conditioned restrooms and a dedicated entry lane at main entrance begin at $595. VIP passes begin at $695, and offer the same perks as GA+, as well as a special VIP entry lane and charging stations. The platinum passes, which will run you $1,200, will offer the same perks as VIP, as well as a private entrance into the festival grounds, all-inclusive beer, cocktails, and wine at a private bar, food, lockers, and golf-cart rides between various parts of the venue.
Fans can set up payment plans with down payments starting at $19.99.
You can see the full line-up below.
Fool In Love Festival
Some of the artists mentioned here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Beyoncé and Taylor Swift have long shown admiration for each other’s craft. After the infamous MTV Video Music Awards incident of 2009, Bey invited Swift to deliver her speech after being interrupted. Bey was also seen at Swift’s birthday party in 2014. Last year, the two made appearances at the premieres of each other’s respective concert films. While they’ve maintained a friendship for nearly 15 years, the two have never collaborated musically.
This past weekend, Bey broke the internet by giving fans the first taste of her upcoming album, Act II, which, as evidenced by the two singles “Texas Hold ‘Em” and “16 Carriages,” sounds like it’ll be a country album. Given its sound, some fans are theorizing that Bey may have convinced another artist to make a brief return to her country roots.
Does Beyoncé have a collaboration with Taylor Swift on Act II?
Today (February 13), producer Killah B, who co-wrote and produced “Texas Hold ‘Em,” spoke with TMZ to tease the album. When asked if Act II would have any collaborations — perhaps with an artist who has roots in country, but made a pivot to pop — Killah responded, saying. “Let’s just say she’s on the approach of shocking the world.”
Though the TMZ reporters didn’t refer to Swift directly by name, the description one of them offered does sound a lot like Swift’s career trajectory.
However, Entertainment Weekly reported that they confirmed with a source with knowledge of the situation that Swift and Beyoncé, in fact, did not collaborate for Act II. But that doesn’t rule out the possibility of a collaboration in the future.
Hotties, get your coins ready. Megan Thee Stallion has new activewear on the way. Today (February 13), the Hot Girl Coach announced Hot Girl Systems, her new line of workout-friendly fashions which arrives as part of a partnership with Nike. Hot Girl Systems arrive later this week, and thankfully, it’s not too expensive. Fans can look forward to adding a fiery assortment of black and red fashions to their closet.
How much does Megan Thee Stallion and Nike’s Hot Girl Systems collection cost?
Hot Girl Systems offers a variety of fashions, including a flowing bomber jacket, red biker shorts, black bodysuits, red body suits, a white cropped shirt, a black cropped shirt, and black sports bras.
Mid-rise biker shorts, light-support non-padded sports bras, and cropped t-shirts will each cost $40. For $50, fans can purchase the medium-support non-padded sports bra. The long-sleeved bodysuit will be available for purchase for $90, and the short-sleeved body suit for $125. And finally, cans purchase the bomber jacket for $200.
The first drop for Meg’s Hot Girl Systems collection arrives just in time for her birthday. According to an Instagram post announcing the collection, fans will be able to purchase items from Hot Girl Systems via Meg’s official website beginning Thursday (February 15). This drop coincides with Meg‘s 29th birthday. The second drop will arrive through Nike’s website and retail stores next Tuesday, February 20.
You can see a teaser for Hot Girl Systems above.
Megan Thee Stallion is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
The New York Knicks fell to the Houston Rockets, 105-103, on Monday night. The end of the game came under major scrutiny, as Jalen Brunson was called for a foul on Aaron Holiday with 0.1 seconds left that sent Holiday to the free throw line and gave Houston a win.
The Knicks were unsurprisingly unhappy about it, particularly because it did not look like Brunson committed a foul. Fast forward to Tuesday evening and Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN reported that New York will go as far as to file a protest with the league about the end of the game, even though there are no more meetings between the two teams on the schedule that would give them a natural way to play overtime.
ESPN Sources: The Knicks are filing a protest with the NBA to dispute the 105-103 loss to the Rockets on Monday. Both the NBA’s L2M report and crew chief Ed Malloy acknowledged foul call on Jalen Brunson leading to Aaron Holiday’s two winning free throws was incorrectly called. pic.twitter.com/SKHKV6SNGJ
The Knicks and Rockets aren’t scheduled to play again this season, but the hope would be to win the protest and play an overtime period to complete the game. Only six protests in league history have been upheld.
It certainly helps the Knicks case that, as Wojnarowski mentioned, they received confirmation from both Ed Malloy and the league’s Last Two Minute Report about the call. After the game, Malloy — who was the crew chief during the game — explicitly said that the officials got the call wrong, while the NBA’s official report that dropped on Tuesday afternoon indicated that Brunson legally contested the shot.
In its Last Two Minute report, NBA says Jalen Brunson legally contested Aaron Holiday’s shot late in Knicks’ 105-103 loss to Rockets on Monday. In a pool reporter interview, referee crew chief Ed Malloy acknowledged after the game that the call on the floor was incorrect. pic.twitter.com/oOJtTPNQKK
Protests are not normally successful, so the Knicks do have a bit of an uphill battle ahead of them here. Still, this one is pretty unique in that the very last play of the game is at question and both the crew chief and the league itself confirmed that this was the wrong call, so maybe New York is able to get the seventh upheld protest in NBA history.
When a movie makes as much as Barbie did last year, you know what happens next: a sequel! Or a spinoff! Or failing those, maybe a tangentially-related franchise? Since both Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig have no interest in Barbie 2, the latter is what’s happening, with Mattel figuring they can get audiences back to theaters to watch movies about Hot Wheels, Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots, even the Magic 8-Ball. Still, spinoffs are at least being talked about. Maybe there will be a Ken movie. And Michael Cera wouldn’t mind dusting off Allan, his break-out scene stealer, even though by his own admission there’s not a lot to him.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, Cera went on The Tonight Show, where he was asked about being up/down for more Allan Sherwood.
“I think it would be kind of a weird movie, but I’m there,” Cera told the host. He then laid out the case for why an Allan movie would either a) not work or b) pretty bizarre:
“He’s kind of like an inactive character. He kind of just stands [there]. For me, the biggest inspiration for the character was Hans Moleman, that character in The Simpsons. He just stands there all the time. For me, that’s like the core of the character.”
The Allan doll was first introduced in 1964 as one of Ken’s friends, with whom he could exchange clothes. In Gerwig and cowriter Noah Baumbach’s film, he was the only man in Barbieland who didn’t taken part in Ken’s toxic/ridiculous patriarchy rebellion. Allan’s awkwardness made him an endearing part of an already goofy picture, giving Cera — who’s also an established serious Broadway actor and star of smart indie films — one of his funnier roles.
Could Allan sustain an entire movie by himself? Perhaps if it was treated like a renegade blockbuster that isn’t trying to play nice. Then again, Barbie was itself a renegade blockbuster, thinking way outside the box far as modern films based on famous IP go, and look what happened there. Besides, who wouldn’t want to spend an entire movie with a character inspired by The Simpsons‘ top shelf supporting character Hans Moleman?
You can watch Cera’s Tonight Show appearance in the video below.
Larry David doesn’t get along with many people, but he especially doesn’t get along with Republicans. The Curb Your Enthusiasm star famously blew up on Alan Dershowitz in public (on Martha’s Vineyard!) for defending Donald Trump. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is technically a Democrat, but he’s Republican-ish and David really doesn’t like him, despite introducing him to his spouse Cheryl Hines. The first two episodes of Curb’s 12th and final season find Larry in Georgia, and conservatives predictably don’t come off too well. One person who did not appreciate their portrayal was one of MAGAland’s loudest members.
I watched this week’s episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm and it was a glaring reminder of why most Georgian’s resent Republicans in our state for inviting the nasty commies from California, the Hollywood elites, into our state by dishing out Hollywood tax credits.
Per Mediaite, Marjorie Taylor Greene dropped an epic, scorched earth post on Twitter/X, saying the latest episode was a “glaring reminder of why most Georgian’s resent Republicans in our state for inviting the nasty commies from California, the Hollywood elites, into our state by dishing out Hollywood tax credits.”
The latest episode, Greene wrote, “lied and painted GA conservatives and Trump supporters as racists and red necks and made fun of our good new law that stops the Stacey Abrams vote pandering machine and prevents voter fraud.”
Atlanta, Georgia, of course, has long been a kind of second Hollywood, with many productions, such as Marvel and Stranger Things and Tyler Perry stuff and Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis. That brings a ton of revenue to the state.
But evidently Greene doesn’t think it’s worth it. She accused “disgusting Hollywood” or bringing their “disgusting values and elite judgement” to a state they want, she claimed, to turn “blue.”
Less then halfway through, Greene’s screed took a turn to a takedown of the “failing” electric car industry. Her post, initially about her anger over a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode she watched, ended by writing, “PROTECT GEORGIA!”
New episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm air on Sundays on HBO and the streamer known as Max, where you can watch the episode that so outraged Greene. There are only eight more left forever…unless David again gets bored and brings his fictional analogue back for more airing of grievances.
Megan Thee Stallion is stepping into the fashion game. Literally. Today (February 13), the Hot Girl Coach revealed Hot Girl Systems, her new line of activewear which arrives as a partnership with Nike.
Hot Girl Systems offers a variety of fashions, including a flowing bomber jacket, red biker shorts, black bodysuits, red body suits, a white cropped shirt, a black cropped shirt, and black sports bras. Though we are still a few months away from Hot Girl Summer, fans can’t wait to get their hands on Meg’s stylish new collection. And, they will be able to make these purchases very soon.
When does Megan Thee Stallion and Nike’s Hot Girl Systems collection come out?
The first drop for Meg’s Hot Girl Systems collection arrives just in time for her birthday. According to an Instagram post announcing the collection, fans will be able to purchase items from Hot Girl Systems via Meg’s official website beginning Thursday (February 15). This drop coincides with Meg‘s 29th birthday. The second drop will arrive through Nike’s website and retail stores next Tuesday, February 20.
You can see a Hot Girl Systems teaser above.
Megan Thee Stallion is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
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